Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-03-24

gron County Register
BY ELI D. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
CAPTAIN NowELL Of the British Prince
sighted the racing ocean yacht Dauntless
on the morning Of the 14th
RUSSIAN official circles now admit the
correctness of the reports about the at
tempt to assassinate the Car.
CORRECTED and revised lists of the casu-
alties in the wreck on the Boston & Prov
idence railroad give twentyfour killed
and la mi ured.
THE Boston District Telegraph messen-
ger boys struck on the 10th for an increase
of weekly wages from 500 to s4.5o a
week and a half holiday on St Patrick s
Day.
AT the eighteenth annual reunion of the
Society of the army of the Cum berland
to be held at Washington, May IL, a statue
of General James A. Garfield will be IN
yelled.
THE New York Times says that stock
brokers were betting freely that when the
smoke clears away the new owner of the
Baltimore & Ohio would be found to be
Jay Gould.
De GA1EFF, Russian Nihilist sentenced
to Siberia several years ago, but who re-
Gently escaped, is said to be the chief of
the plotters who recently tried to
dynamite the Gar.
HEAVY snow-storms prevailed on the
18th throughout Bavaria and Wurtem-
burg. A slight shock of earthquake was
felt in Munich and vicinity during the day,
but it did no damage.
THE proposition to submit prohibitory
amendment to the Constitution to vote
of the people of Illinois at the next gener-
al election, was rejected by the House on
the 10th by vote of 70 noes to IS yeas.
BENJAMIN SPANDAUER, who was mainly
instrumental in securing the conviction of
Mrs. Surrat of completely in the assas-
sination Of Abraham Lincoln, was jailed
at Baltimore, Md, on the 18th, as pur-
chaser of perjury.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, on receiving the
French General, Marquis D'Abzac is re-
ported to have made strong peace remarks,
among them: ''God will soon call me to
himself do not want to leave my people
a heritage of blood"
A WARRANT was issued at the Treasury
department on the 10Th amounting to
81, 800. 900 in favor of the collector of Gus
toms at New York to pay debentures and
drawbacks and refund excess of deposits
for unascertained duties.
THE Department of State has received a
copy of the will of the late Jose Sevilla,
who died in Lima, Peru, recently, leaving
$500, 900 to be applied to the establis hment
in New York of an institution for the
education of poor female children.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
authorized the following National banks
to commence business: The Peoples
Bank of Lancaster, Pa, 100000 capital;
First National of Pratt, Kas., $50, ZOO;
First National of Grass Valley, Cal,
$4,000.
BEN BUTTERwoRTH, of Ohio, has writ
ten letter to the Toronto (Ont.) Mail on
the dispute between Canada and the
United States, in which he defends his own
course in Congress and. by Implication,
denounces the retaliatory legislation
enacted.
THE Pennsylvania House congressional
superintendent committee has agreed to
give Philadelphia six districts, gain of
one. A Philadelphia reapportionment was
also agreed upon, making all of the six
districts Republican, thus shutting Mr..
Randall out
IT is the general opinion in New York
railway circles that the Baltimore & Ohio
dicker is fully consul minated, but for the
present the names are held under injunc-
tions of secrecy by q confidential few,
among the latter being Henry w. Grady
of the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution.
A DISPATCH from Summerville, S. c.,
says that an earthquake shock was felt
at six o'clock on the evening of the 18th,
which was the worst that has occurred in
two months. 1t caused some excitement,
because it was thought to be severe
enough to do the town some damage.
Instructions have been issued to the
superintendent of the life-saving dis
tricts, embracing the lakes, to man their
stations and put them in operation at the
opening of navigation. Stations in the
lower districts Will begin operations
April 1 and the others between that date
and the 18th proximo.
THE arbitration committee of the knit
goods manufacturers at Cohoes, n. Y aft
er a conference with the Knights of La
Dor committee on the 10th, Notified the lat
ter that they would no further consider
their proposition for new scale of wages.
The scale was demanded for 10000 opera
tives, and there is much anxiety as to the
result of its rejection.
A NUMBER of Spicious-loeking men
have been lately making frequent visits
to the money vaults of the Treasury De-
partment during the hours allowed for
public inspection. Such of them as called
on the 18th were notified that they must
not come again, and the officers in charge
of the vaults have been instructed to keep
a sharp lookout on visitors in the future.
THE convicts in the Sing Sing On. W
prison, to the number of seven hundred
and over, who are locked up for want of
employment in consequence of the expira-
tion OF the stove and other contracts in
hibited by the law, say that they are I'M